Do Plugins

Writing plugins for DO

Asked by thierryn

Hi, I want to try and develop a plugin as well for Gnome-Do...by the way a very very special product..keep it up.

I have no problem to understand the plugins present, but i fail to integrate a new plugin into gnome-do. It appears without any problem in the plugins list I can select it...but after a few seconds it automatically gets deselected again??

Did I do something wrong? I created an almost empty plugin (copy from Epiphany plugin) tried to change the name. Build -> I get the dll file...now do I need to pack it up into a mpack-archive? Where do I need to put it?

Right now I out it up in an mpack archive (with addin.info) and then copy this one (with the dll) to /usr/share/gnome-do/plugins. I change the root.mrep so that i have an entry for my plugin. Then i relaunch gnome-do...I try to activate the plugin as it appears in the list. the dll is then copied to the folder /.local/share/gnome-do/plugins-0.8.1/addins (so I guess the entry in the root.mrep is correct?) But the plugin is not active?

Did I do something wrong? Or is there a simpler way to integrate a plugin during development? I somewhere found to drag and drop the dll file onto the list, but this does not do anything?

Great product and hope to resolve this small issue, and I can start a small plugin as well..

thanks

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Chris S. (cszikszoy) said : 		#1

You actually shouldn't be modifying or editing ANY of the files under ~/.local/share/gnome-do. Do does all of this for you when you install a plugin.

To install a plugin, simply drag + drop onto the plugins list in the preferences page. If you run Do from the terminal with
"gnome-do --debug" you will be able to see that Do is installing the plugin after you drag + drop.

Every plugin must have an XML file embedded into the plugin. If you look, every plugin includes a "Resoruces" directory in the source. Inside this resource directory, will be (among other things) the XML file. Study these and make a similar one for your plugin.

If you need specific help, please come to our IRC channel, #gnome-do on freenode and I (or any other experienced user there) will be able to help you more.

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